I'm trying to fine tune my .bashrc file and was hoping that I could get chroot to be a different color other than default white. My rc file is pretty close to the default other than some git stuff and the coloration scheme. The problem is that I can't seem to set chroot to red ahead of the calls to debian_chroot without problems.. Here's an excerpt of what I think is relevant.

Figured it out on my own. In my case, I was using Python's localenv, which has its own rc type file named 'activate' in /localenv/bin/ . Add your color before the line where (basename \"VIRTUAL_ENV\")$PS1 is set to PS1.
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sojojoApr 30 '13 at 22:57